Call for papers for Session at upcoming WAC

I am co-convening with Prof Stuart Smith of UC Santa Barbara a Symposium at the World Archaeology Congress in Kyoto, Japan (August 28 – Friday September 2, 2016) within theme of T12- Interactions, organized by Kristian Kritiansen

This session seeks papers proposing to examine and explain interactions in the globalized world of ancient networks. We seek papers addressing areas of strong intercultural contact and negotiation of cultural identity such as borderlands and interfaces, contested spaces, hypothetical migration spaces, trading regions and emporia, maritime networks (including those connected with piracy and/or slavery), third gender perspectives, and other spatial liminalities. We welcome papers exploring these issues, which either interrogate current theoretical perspectives or apply them to robust bodies of data in prehistoric and historical archaeology. Theoretical perspectives might include (but are not limited to) transculturalism, agency theory, practice theory, entanglement, theories of transnational artifacts and object biographies, post-colonial theory, and the development of cross-cultural historical and/or anthropological models.